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Forbes seeks a small business staff writer

Forbes is looking for a creative and experienced business journalist to cover small business.This journalist will report and write articles about small business and businesses, will recruit and oversee contributors covering it as their beat, will oversee Forbes’ lists related to small business, and will also handle any other related opportunities that arise and serve as the public face of Forbes’ small business coverage (possibilities might include speaking at conferences, creating podcasts, and participating in live events).

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Research and write articles about small business—as an industry, as an economic force, as a cultural force, as individual enterprises, and as a field of opportunity and entrepreneurship and advancement—including covering breaking news, profiling important personalities, and posting on outside studies and rankings.
Recruit and oversee a growing team of outside contributors writing about small business and entrepreneurship on the Forbes.com platform.
Oversee and prepare for publication Forbes’ flagship rankings related to small business, including Small Giants and Next Billion-Dollar Startups.
Represent Forbes as its editorial expert on small business at conferences and in other ways, as needed and appropriate.

Bachelor’s degree in journalism, English, communications, or another appropriate field.
At least three to five years’ business reporting and writing or editing experience.
Experience covering small business as a journalist and/or engaging in other activities that build awareness of and knowledge about the subject.
A passion for small business as a matter of great importance to the workforce and in American life.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.